One of Russia’s jailed Pussy Riot punk band members complained Monday of grey monotony and strict rules in her prison camp in the Urals mountains, in her first detailed account of her experiences.

In an article in The New Times weekly, Maria Alyokhina, 24, described her first weeks at Corrective Labour Colony No. 28 in the Perm region, where she is serving a two-year sentence for the group’s anti-Vladimir Putin performance in a church.

“Everything around is grey. Even if something is another colour, all the same it has an element of grey. Everything: the buildings, food, the sky, words,” said Alyokhina, the mother of a young son, who writes poetry and has taken part in ecological activism. The camp is surrounded by factories belching harmful fumes and by coniferous forest, she said.